| Author | Message | ||
     Jose Carlos Alves Username: josealves Registered: N/A |
Hi, I'm trying to recover a small set of text files from a IDE laptop disk with NTFS. Files are in the ranbge of 2 MB and even a partial recover would be sufficient. Opening the logical disk shows the directory with all files, I can see the complete list of clusters but some of them are unreadable and Winhex hangs. I can't find in the program any way to automatically recover a file, changing the unreadable sectors by something known as "UNREADABLESECTOR" or so (this seems to work only when reading physical disks). I managed to do this by hand for one of the files (!) just by copying-pasting the good sectors to a text editor, but when a bad sector is selected the program hangs and I need to force quit and restart again. Any sugestion? Jose | ||
| Stefan Fleischmann Username: admin Registered: 1-2001 |
Suggestions: 1) Options | General | [x] Alternative disk access method 1 or 2, Timeout in ms = e.g. 1000 If the program still hangs for a very long time when coming across a bad sector, then all the more a software-based is inferior to a hardware-based approach (i.e. the best solution is to have a dedicated data recovery company do the work). 2) Options | General | [ ] Sector reading cache 3) Image the hard disk and work with the image instead > I can't find in the program any way to automatically > recover a file, changing the unreadable sectors by > something known as "UNREADABLESECTOR" or so There are many way to recover files, and all of them would do that if a sector cannot be read and does not cause the program to hang indefinitely or crash. > (this seems to work only when reading physical disks). Well, by all means, then do read from the physical disk in WinHex and open the partition from within the physical disk. This is better than opening a logical drive letter for many reasons than. But best is to image the disk and work with the image instead. (Interpreting an image and treating it like a disk requires a specialist license or higher.) |